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CN light power including middle GMD-1 CN 1439 are on a Sunday afternoon run at low mileage on the CN Dundas Sub, heading for Aldershot Yard where they would do some switching at the west end. The engines are near the bottom of the long downhill from Copetown. No dynamic brakes in this set - underframe haze was visible in prior pictures, and there was a smell of hot brakes after they had gone.
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Caption: CN light power including middle GMD-1 CN 1439 are on a Sunday afternoon run at low mileage on the CN Dundas Sub, heading for Aldershot Yard where they would do some switching at the west end.
The engines are near the bottom of the long downhill from Copetown. No dynamic brakes in this set - underframe haze was visible in prior pictures, and there was a smell of hot brakes after they had gone.

Photographer:
John Pittman [288] (more) (contact)
Date: 10/14/2018 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 9482, CN 1439, CN 7083 (search)
Train Symbol: CN 550 (search)
Subdivision/SNS: CN Dundas Sub mp 0.3 (search)
City/Town: Hamilton (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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7 Comments
  1. Snake2
    October 16, 2018 at 8:32 am

    they pushed a stalled 385 up the hill

  2. Joseph Bishop
    October 16, 2018 at 10:40 am

    Pushed all the way to Paris!

  3. ngineered4u
    October 16, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    Ahh the good old days of stalling on Copetown Hill. 10 miles upgrade. Brake shoe smell. Oh man, I miss that smell.

  4. Snake2
    October 16, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    Phil, we’ll come up with a way to bottle that smell….and market it to railbuffs and ex employees.

  5. ngineered4u
    October 16, 2018 at 4:00 pm

    Hmmm@Snake2 I like the way you think mister. Ex employees don”t want to have anything to do with trains when they retire, but railfans are suckers so they will by anything railroad related. We are gonna get rich snake2 :-)

  6. Snake2
    October 16, 2018 at 4:43 pm

    It will be a great stocking stuffer !

  7. ngineered4u
    October 16, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    HAHA @snake2
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